#planarian

[chronicsheepdrawing]

The shape of lines can make a huge difference in how something feels.

[chameleocoonj]

💕Happy late valentines/ace week!!! 💕

This piece is a celebration of animals that can reproduce asexually in various ways. Under the readmore you can find a key to the species included and some information about how they reproduce.

These are very simplified definitions, if you're interested in this stuff definitely do more research and reading! The intricate details are really fascinating and specific to each animal- plants are even crazier!

Budding: a new individual develops then detaches from the parent when mature

Fragmentation: a new individual grows from a detached piece of the parent organism

Parthenogenesis: a new individual forms from an unfertilized egg

Facultative Parthenogenesis: the organism can reproduce sexually and/or asexually

Obligate Parthenogenesis: the organism can only reproduce through parthenogenesis

Gynogenesis: a form of obligate parthenogenesis that requires the presence of sperm without any actual genetic contribution

[leafkidsblog]

image description. an MSpaint drawing of a hammerhead flatworm, Diversibipalium engeli, curled up in a shape that vaguely resembles a heart. the flatworm has a red half moon shaped head with a rounded black rectangle in the center, and a black body with six or seven squiggly white stripes. above the flatworm is a quote from Tumblr user crevicedwelling that reads: "I tell them that they're beautiful and that they're a problem I can't solve by destroying them". end ID.

"I... tell them they're beautiful and that they're a problem I can't solve by destroying them" — @crevicedwelling (x)(x)

[strangegutz]

Planaria pal

[jazzrazzberry]

is the doctor.... a planarian flatworm

evidence:

can regenerate. don't really have lungs. wiggly. don't really know how either of them work on a biological level. can make two from one guy (bigeneration or cutting worm in half i guess)

[crevicedwelling]

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[im-in-your-mind]

my planarian girl for digital practice

[dazzelmethat]

Resurrecting and re-exploring a color pallet for a planarian demon I made in 2016. I'm still unsettled on a name but use they/them as most of my demons do.

For this version I used a typical planarian pallet. I might experiment with other pallets though. I think back in the day I tried yellow but I wound up not liking it.

[biologist4ever]

Planarian is able to regenerate any missing organ, which has made planarians a popular model in research of regeneration and stem cell biology.

[onenicebugperday]

Unidentified blue land planarian, Geoplanidae

Photographed in Ecuador by pandabadger

[snezztheferret]

massive planarian I saw in my assorted creature tank today. over one whole inch!!!

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By SREEJITH VISWANATHAN - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

[racheldoinstuff]

Oooh double flatworm day! And some teeny weeny snailies

[mustelidayy]

ive been drawing this planarian guy all day!

i was actually gonna use it for a design contest (still might) but i focused so much on the biological aspect that it doesnt fit the theme at all anymore…. its so cute thooughhggj 😓😓

[overdoso]

Platydemus manokwari é uma espécie de planária terrestre que come uma variedade de invertebrados, incluindo caracóis terrestres e lesmas como esta Lehmannia valentiana. Nativo da Nova Guiné, foi acidentalmente introduzido no solo de muitos países, incluindo os Estados Unidos e teve um impacto negativo significativo na rara fauna endêmica de caracóis terrestres de algumas ilhas do Pacífico. Eles foram responsáveis na extinção de algumas espécies de caramujos terrestres insulares.

[im-in-your-mind]

sona ref sheet!! (shes a planarian flatworm)